Automated search, number of results, and historical search results

Andreas

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Feb 27, 2009, 1:22:48 PM2/27/09

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Hi,

I' not sure if I'm in the right group but here's my problem.

1. I have a list of keywords saved in a spreadsheet file and would
like to perform an automated search of these keywords. For each
keyword, I would like to have the number of results found by Google.

2. Is it possible to conduct historical searches? For example, I would
like to have the number of results that Google would have found for
"soccer" on January 1, 2006.

Thanks,
Andreas

N. Rosencrantz

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Mar 1, 2009, 7:05:49 AM3/1/09

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On Feb 27, 7:22 pm, Andreas <agra...@web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I' not sure if I'm in the right group but here's my problem.
>
> 1. I have a list of keywords saved in a spreadsheet file and would
> like to perform an automated search of these keywords. For each
> keyword, I would like to have the number of results found by Google.

Hej
1. anything a browser can do a software can automate. It's absolutely
possible from http get, parse the SERP and take the required
numberOfResults. There might be a ready function somewhere already or
it would be a few lines of java with httpunit or htmlunit or the
python equivalent of "headless" browsing. it's similar to a macro and
you can program the spreadsheet to do it.
Regards,
Niklas

Andreas

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Mar 1, 2009, 10:14:49 AM3/1/09

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Thanks, Niklas.

But how about the second point. This kind of date search is not
possible with the browser, right? But can programming do this?

Andreas